Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Silence and Light: Louis Kahn

'I can say that I believe that light is the nature of material and that material is spent light.'

'Silence is the feeling that comes over you when you see the pyramids. A voiceless soundless silence, not quiet, but somehow a speaking, which is not speech, which is manifest in the pyramid itself: an indication that there was an inspiration to express. I think man lives to express and there is no other reason for living.' - Louis Kahn